Yay! Broody jap hen discovered today - Page 3

Hope this girl hatches some chicks for you! I have a pair in each of my planted aviaries. The hens will go broody if I let them, and 2 actually build a nest of sorts at the base of some bamboo! I'll have to get pictures of them.

Sorry I've been busy, she gave up after about 10 days which was a bummer.... So those eggs got put in the compost 😔

On other news, I made a home-made incubator and hatch one lonely chick 😄😍 lol she loves to be held and pats...
I say 'she' because this chick hatch from a round egg, so I'm waiting for her to grow up so I can sex her at hopefully 6 weeks!

She also had curled toes on her right foot, so I looked up how to fix that by taping. So I have taken special care of her and have help fix her legs using legs splint. I actually found instructions on a google search which lead me to this forum but in the chicken section haha! They said it'd be too fidgety with quail chicks being so small, but I had to persist as gently as possible so as not to stress my chick. But this chick is tough!!